Nottingham researchers' role in largest genetics study of congenital heart disease

 Heart Disease PR
02 Aug 2016 12:42:29.880

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Researchers at The University of Nottingham have been involved in one of the largest international studies of congenital heart disease, which has discovered gene mutations linked to three new rare congenital heart disorders (CHD).

Published in the academic journal Nature Genetics, the study also found the first clear evidence of genetic differences between two forms of the disease, and that one form can be traced back to healthy parents.

The academics in the University’s School of Life Sciences have been aiming to understand the genetic causes of heart disease, as part of an international team of collaborators led by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

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